Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...England whose regular course is advanced enough to prepare students for our entrance examinations. All those who have prepared for Harvard, outside of New England, recognize the fact. The standard here, though not perhaps so greatly in advance of Yale and Princeton, is about a year beyond the usual curriculum of preparatory schools outside of the Eastern States, and it is consequently very difficult for those living in other States to get a proper fitting for admittance to Harvard. It is therefore a matter of decided congratulation when a school to be preparatory for Harvard is established outside the classic...
...decision. Or it is often the case, notably in mathematical honors and the Cordon medal that the prizes are given solely on the basis of regular class work and examinations. Commencement appointments are made on the same basis, i. e., that of the entire average of the course in curriculum work. Ilitherto those appointed for rank have always appeared on the commencement stage, but by the new laws of the college (in effect this year for the first time) the number of speakers is limited. They are chosen as at Harvard. The names of those who do not speak appear...
...might be trotted out. We took the young Americans, man for man, and our verdict was that which we have described. But, nevertheless, the latter, in sheer, intellectual force, may probably give the "Jesus" giants seventy-five in one hundred and beat them, especially when we remember that the curriculum now at an English university is athletic sports, and the rest nowhere, and that consequently the breadth across the chest is perhaps of more consequence than across the forehead...
Politics should enter more largely into the American college curriculum. It is plain that in this way alone can the standard of politics in this country be raised. The tendency of modern life is every day running towards specialization, and this tendency will undoubtedly soon be a factor in political life. In England and Germany men fit themselves specially for politics, just as others do for medicine and law. Many schools have been founded specially to prepare for the civil service examinations. The introduction of civil service reform in this country will soon necessitate such special preparation here. The universities...
...They are very few, not many of them in our college curriculum; and if a professor can't hold the interest of his class while lecturing he had better use a poor text-book. We might learn the whole thing in the time it takes to translate our notes and copy them. What do you say to getting up a petition to have some of these fellows stop lecturing...